Re: racist vs racialist?

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:10 pm, you wrote:
> In a message dated 12/10/2002 9:27:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>
> kesuari@YAHOO.COM.AU writes:
> > Is there a better term than 'White' to describe us erm... White people?
> > We aren't very white (you'd be better off calling me red (even during
> > Winter II; it's not sunburn :P)),
>
> I'm told that the Australian aborigines call (or used to call) people of
> European extraction "red."  (Perhaps a lot of them got sunburned.) Can you
> confirm that?
It was also the term reputedly used by Papua New Guineans way back when PNG
was still a couple of territories administered by Australia.  I myself have
never heard it, but I can believe it - my father turned reddish very easily.

Wesley Parish

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